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Nah. They've kept Farsight pretty consistent as the "better than average at close combat" Tau.

What I'd love to see for Farsight, though, is the restriction on Pathfinders and Stealth teams lifted, or options to take "elite" Fire Warrior squads.

But neither here nor there.

Battlesuits will only become troops when a new plastic kit comes out.

They need weapon options for this kit badly. It looks like the underslung burst cannons are a separate piece from the side/rear view, but slapping lunchbox style missile pods on in its place would look horrendous. I want these, but I want to make fireknives and a Farsight.

They're making weapon options for the XV-9. They've said so repeatedly. They even say in the missive that it's the "first weapon option setup" or words to that effect.

Kanluwen wrote:They're making weapon options for the XV-9. They've said so repeatedly. They even say in the missive that it's the "first weapon option setup" or words to that effect.

...but I want them now! *stamp* *stamp*

I doubt you'll see missile pods for em, most likely just Fusion, Plasma, and Flamers, as they're supposed to be a close range in your face suit.

Its not that hard to put missile pods on it but it will look off. I hope they go the whole range.

Also its more posable than the others. Look at the pictures you can pose it to varying degrees which is really nice.

I like it but I wish they had used the regular burst cannons instead of the stealth suit ones.

mmmm 6 twinlinked shots from one suit. I like it, I really do. Even nurgle marines would die from a hail of fire originating from 3 of those suits. Somebody do the mathhammer for me.

Platuan4th wrote:The more I see this thing, the more I think Cogs than Tau.

I like it, but it's just not Tau enough, even compared to the other FW suit varieties.

I think the Cogs would use this as target practice.

The legs look all wrong. The stubs near the 'knees' would quickly be abandoned in field testing, the shoulders look non practical. Heaven forbid a branch or something gets in that big whole there and jam up the inner workings.

There's no place to store the huge amount of ammo that would need to feed all those guns. It uses the same size barrel for two guns as the normal suit uses for one.

The jet pack doesn't look like it could left the suit and certainly wouldn't be capable of much movement.

The only decent thing is the head and that is not much.

Did the engineers consider stealth suits with flamers? They'd seem much more practical than this.

Aduro wrote:I doubt you'll see missile pods for em, most likely just Fusion, Plasma, and Flamers, as they're supposed to be a close range in your face suit.

Over at AdvancedTauTactica a guy posted about what he talked about to the Forgeworld guys at a gamesday event. I distinctly remember him saying they said one of the other weapons coming out will be a "Fusion Cascade Blaster." Whatever that means, it sounds badass. More MEQ killy weapons, please!

Sounds like some form of multi-shot melta weapon. Mmmmmmmmm, toasty.

Wow. If GW follows this aesthetic and redoes Crisis suits, I'd buy them.

For now, I'd probably only use this to convert Commander Farsight. FW prices are too much for me to justify anything more.

LunaHound wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Alpharius wrote:Is the Tau 'pilot' curled up in a ball in the chest of this thing, or are his legs supposed to go all the way down to the feet?

I think there's a seat in the torso, but GW art's never really shown the inside.

That said, if we go by the GW art in the Tau Codex, Battle suits should actually probably be half again as large as the model is in relation to the Fire Warriors.

I agree , looks like Cog mixed with Gundam .
Which reminds me , the next time GW updates Tau , will they consider redoing the suits?

THEY'VE WIPED OUT 80% OF OUR LEO'S!!!

In all seriousness, I like the design of the suit, but don't think it had much more practical application than Stealth Suits.

The Hit and Run special rule is nice (via VT), and the addendum about sacrificing drones to automatically get away is a great addition. I am not sure why they needed to make a special rule though at the end, to explain exactly what a Bonding Knife already does.

Mastiff wrote:I'd love to do an army of Forgeworld crisis suits, but my damn kids like to eat.

You know... As I understand it, there's only, like, 1 molecule difference between margarine and plastic.


"Sprues. It's what's for dinner."


Eric
(Of course, then you have to worry about the "Sprue is murder" contingent...)

Too thin at the waist for me, but otherwise very cool.

MagickalMemories wrote:

Mastiff wrote:I'd love to do an army of Forgeworld crisis suits, but my damn kids like to eat.

You know... As I understand it, there's only, like, 1 molecule difference between margarine and plastic.


"Sprues. It's what's for dinner."


Eric
(Of course, then you have to worry about the "Sprue is murder" contingent...)

Y'know, I like where you're going with this idea, but the dentists' bills might wipe out any savings. Hmmmm... Sprue smoothies maybe?

I'm going to wait and see what other equipment setups it gets. If it gets a multi-shot melta, I may get six.

Heck, I say get six, and just use the thing as a normal Crisis Suit.

My hope is that they use this as a basis for remodeled crisis suits. Well that or they follow their actual art and concepts when doing the next round. The current set are god awful and the proportions look nothing like the art.

Me too Shuma. I was really disappointed when I discovered the Robert Cirillo concept art and found that GW had decided not to use one of his crisis suit designs, instead opting for plastic stealth suits which weren't really that necessary. A lot of people still prefer the old metals, the main reason I see people buying plastic stealths is so they can use the bits to make their crisis suits look better, lol...not to mention the rules for them suck so no one uses stealths anyway.

I'm both looking forward to and dreading the next release...not just because there's a chance our codex could really suck, like the CSM and DA 'dexes, but because I'm almost certain they'll be doing a new crisis suit this time around and I'll have to replace all of the ones I already have and then some. It's going to be awesome, but painful at the same time.

Any samples of this concept art of which you speak?

Yeah, got any examples of this concept art?


And we use the newer plastic Stealth Suits as a completely new unit (Crossfire Battlesuits), and use the old Stealth Suits as Stealth Suits.

http://www.advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=12958

You can find concept art for the crisis suits, auxiliaries, etc. there, and the artist's website.

Those suits designs are indeed quite awesome, and I'm going to have to use that Crossfire name for my XV-25 "counts as" Crisis Suits.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah, got any examples of this concept art?


And we use the newer plastic Stealth Suits as a completely new unit (Crossfire Battlesuits), and use the old Stealth Suits as Stealth Suits.

Am I the only person that liked the new suits and think the old ones were pretty poor? They were basically fire warriors holding guns that they couldn't reasonably wield. My issue is just that stealth suits aren't really good at anything except anti infantry. They can only have a single fusion blaster and none of their weapons have enough range to make use of the stealth field. If they could have rail rifles they would be fantastic, but as they are they're schizophrenic.

I like the look of them, don't get me wrong...though I don't like how bulky they look. I realize the "stealth" comes from a Predator-styled cloaking device thing (well, I assume anyway), but still, for something that's meant to be stealthy it's pretty damn big. I just would have rather had a new crisis suit kit before a stealth suit kit.

They look to me a cross between armored core and gundam to me

They are HOT! Gunna have to get me a squad of those! The Tau live!!

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:That's extremely Robotech. Like, specifically Robotech.

Completely agree, the 1st thing I thought was Tau are close to developing Suits that can transform into jets.

BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITs pretty cool, but at the same time its looking more and more anime then the other Tau things. That would still kick alot of booty tho thats for sure lol